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A Word about Restaurants

Restaurants are a great source of pleasure to all of us. We get to eat foods that are either difficult, if not nearly impossible, to make at home. None of us wants to give up eating in restaurants, nor should we. We have to remember, though, that eating in restaurants comes with a price, over and above the check.

• We lose control over how the food is prepared, and often are left in the dark as to the contents of many dishes. This makes it difficult to estimate the total calories consumed, as well as the fat calories, in a restaurant meal. Yet, we must at least attempt to make such estimates, with the view that something is better than nothing.
• If you eat in restaurants more than twice a week, you will have a very difficult time with any weight management program, unless you are are very scrupulous about your choices and develop heroic record keeping of those choices.
• Yes, I realize that some people have jobs that necessitate frequent business lunches and/or dinners. Such people can succeed in their weight management program, however, if they remain ever vigilant.
• There are websites that attempt to present nutritional data for various restaurant chains in the US. In modern franchise, or chain, restaurants, standardization, including portion control, is key. You will find that some restaurants make any variety of excuses to not give you the nutritional data that you need. For any such restaurant to claim that they don't know about any nutritional item seems disingenuous to me. I personally don't like dealing with restaurants that hide the truth from me, but that is up to you.
• Finally, I am sad to say, restaurants do not always tell the truth about nutritional information.
• All the above show reasons why frequent restaurant dining makes weight management more difficult.

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